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smaller entire petals, bnt pods and seeds like the foregoing ; and CE. pufiiA- 

 TfFiDA, with petals as in CE. trichocalyx, and similar pods, bnt with striate 

 and reticulated seeds, — all handsome white-flowered species of Western plains 

 and the Rocky Mountains, — are beginning to be cultivated.) 

 » « * Yellow-flowered, diurnal, sometimes called Sundrops, the blos- 

 soms opening in bright sunshine : petals mosthj obcordate : stems kqfy : 

 leaves obscureh toothed or entire. Wild species'of the country, all but the 

 last occasionally cultivated, "il 



■fr- Pod short-oblong or obovate, 4-wing-angled. 



CS. glatica. Wild from Virginia and Kentucky near and in the moun- 

 tains S. : l°-2° high, smooth, pale and glaucous, leafy to the top ; leaves ovate 

 or lance-ovate ; corolla 2' or more in diameter. 



1- ■*- Pod club-sliaped, somewhat 4-wing-angled above, and 4 intervening ribs. 



CE. frutic6sa. Wild in open places : not shrubby, as the name would 

 imply, hairy or nearly smooth, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, somewhat 

 corymbed flowers l^'-2' in diameter, and short-stalked pods. 



CTi. line^iS. Wild from Long Island S. near the coast : pale or somewhat 

 hoary with minute pubescence, with slender and sjrrfeading often bushy-branched 

 stems l'-2' long, linear or lance-linear leaves, and somewhat corymbed flowers, 

 corolla 1 ' - 1^' across, and hoary pods tapering into a slender stalk. — A spread- 

 ing form is cultivated, blooming very freely through the summeri 



CE. ptimila. In fields, &c. : nearly smooth, 5' -12' high, with tnostly 

 simple erect or ascending stem, oblanceolate leaves, and scattered flowers, the 

 corolla less than 1' across, and pods short-stalked or sessile. 



* » * # Eed-pdkple-fl., diurnal, leafy-stemmed : pods club-shaped, (i) © 



(E. r6sea, from Mexico. Minutely downy, with slender spreading stems 

 6'- 24' high, ovate or lance-oblong leaves, the lower sometimes rather piu- 

 natifid, and flowers 1' across in leafy racemes. ' 



§ 2. God^tia. Stigma with 4 linear or short and broad lobes : tube of the calyx 

 beyond the linear or spindle-shaped ovary inversely conical or funnel-shapea : 

 leafy-stemmed : flowers open by day, scentless ; petals broad , and Jim-shaped 

 or wedge-shaped, the truncate summit generally eroded, lilac-purpk) rose- 

 color, or sometimes white: anthers erect on short {the alternate ones on very 

 short) and broadish fllaments, curving after opening. All IV. American, 

 abounding in Oregon and California, several in the gardens, the following 

 most common. ® 

 CE. purptirea. Very leafy to the top, rather stout, 6' -10' high, at length 

 with many short branches; leaves pale, lance-oblong, entire; corolla I'-l^' 

 across, pui-ple, with a dark eye ; short and broad lobes of stigma dark-colored ; 

 pods short and thick, closely sessile, rather conical. 



CE. rubictlllda. Taller, l°-.2° high, and linear-lanceplate lejives rather 

 scattered along the slender branches ; corolla 2' or more across, lilac-purple 

 with saffron-colored eye (also pale or rose-colored varieties) ; lobes of stigma 

 oblong, pale ; pods thickish, cylindrical, sessile. 



CE. Xiindleyi. Erect or spreading, 8' -16' high, with slender branches, 

 narrow lanceolate leaves ; corolla about 2' across, lilac-purple, with a deeper red- 

 purple spot on the middle of each petal ; lobes of the stigma linear and pale ; 

 pods slender, linear, somewhat tapering at the ends. 



CE. amcsna. Slender, 6'- 18' high, with lance-oblong or lance-linear 

 leaves, and corolla 2' -3' across, rose-color or almost white, with usually a deeper 

 reddish eye; lobes of Stigma linear ; pods linear. 



8. JUSSI.fflA. (Named for Bernard, the elder de Jussieu.) Leaves entire. 



Plowers yellow, all summer. 



J. deeiirrens. Wet grounds,, Virg. to 111. and S. Erect stems and slen- 

 der branches margined or winged in lines proceeding from the bases of the 

 lanceolate leaves, smooth throughout ; flowers sessile or short-stalked, with 4 

 lobes of calyx nearly aa long aA the petals, and oblong-dub-ahaped 4-angled 

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